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  1. I know that i's been quite awhile, but I just wanted to let everyone know that it ended up being the cord that comes off the Inhibitor Switch that was the problem. After replacing the switch this last weekend I still had the problem. So I tested the old switch which checked out fine (should've done this before I purchased a new one ). Then I pulled out the cord from the switch since at the end of it, I wasn't getting a signal for the backup lights. Sure enough the cord had 4 completely severed wires and one partially severed. After repairing the wires, I know have all my dash lights for indicator positions and my reverse lights work. It's still too early to know if the hard shifting issue is fixed, but hopefully. Anyway, thanks to everyone who replied for the help! Heath
  2. Thanks for the replies, I appreciate it! sea#3 When I had the shop check out the transmission when I first noticed the issue they said there were no codes. Is the inhibitor switch hard to replace? The cluster lights that don't light which are D, 3, and 2 never light no matter how the transmission is behaving. But P, R, N, and 1 light up without a problem. Yes, they were LED's, just seems weird that 3 would go out at the same time. grossgary No, the cluster lights act the same regardless of how the tranny is acting. And there are no transmission lights or flashes ever. nipper The fluid was changed when I had the 60K done at 58K miles. Do you think I should have the Transmission Flushed? Could the inhibitor/neutral safety switch also cause the cluster problem since the TCU doesn't know what gear it's in? And is it hard to replace? Thanks again for all the help! Heath
  3. Short Story: 2003 Legacy with 67K miles, Automatic Transmissions shifts hard from lower to higher gears when car is warm and entering free-ways. The ************ Indicator Positions for D, 3, and 2 do not light up anymore. My Reverse lights don't work even though the bulbs are good and no fuses are blown. Any ideas? Long Story: Ok, this is kind of a multi part issue, but I believe all of it has to do with the Automatic Transmision in my 2003 Legacy with 67,000 miles. In June I made a trip from Seattle to Oregon and did quite a bit of driving down there. When entering onto freeways and getting up to speed, the car would seem to stay in a low gear such as first or second and then shift hard into the next gear. This seemed to happen everytime we hopped on a freeway and gave it some gas. I ended up making an appointment to get it checked out from down there and got it into the shop with 59,960 miles. They checked it out and could not reproduce the issue, no matter what they tried. So I took it home and although I tried as hard as I could on the way there, I also couldn't reproduce the issue. A few days later I noticed that the Shift Indicator Position in the middle of the instrument cluster do not come on for D, 3 or 2, the rest work fine. I contacted the place that did the work to see if they new what would cause that, they told me to check the bulbs. I pulled the entire dash and cluster apart and there are no replaceable bulbs, nor do they look blown. A few weeks ago my reverse/backup lights stopped working, bulbs and fuses are all good. Last week I made a road trip to Los Angeles and noticed the shifting issue again, but this time it seemed to only occur when the car was warm and had been driven for awhile. Can anyone give me any insight on these issues? I think I'm going to have to take it back to the shop for the shifting problem, but would like to have some input before spending another $100 bucks for them not to find anything, especially since I am now out of warranty. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Heath
  4. Hi Scott, I wasn't able to find any sort of harness in the Legacy model nor any posts that said it had one. It looks like it is only in the Outback. So I ended up just splicing the wires and it works great. If you have any quesitons, let me know. Heath
  5. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures. But in my '84 Wagon I had Polk EX346 4"x6" speakers in the dash in the factory locations and Polk EX350 5" speakers in the rear doors. The one in the right side of the dash above the glove box fit perfect but on the left side the stock speaker was a little smaller so I just wedged the 4"x6" in. For the rear doors I just drilled new holes in the speaker plates to acommidate the 5" speakers. Everything fit, looked stock and sounded great too. I purchased them from Crutchfield so they included all of the wiring needed (which is important since the stock speakers are ran off the same wires for front and back) and then I found a dash that was cut for a regular sized deck at the junkyard and installed my Kenwood KDC-416S Receiver.
  6. Yes, please post the name, I have an adapter for my Kenwood deck that plugs into the CD Changer slot and has RCA plugs on the other end so you can hook up external devices....and if I could get something like that for the stock deck in my Subaru that would be great..... Heath
  7. I recently purchased a 2003 Legacy L "Special Edition" wagon and am looking to install a trailer hitch on the vehicle. From what I have read and found there isn't a wiring harness that plugs into the factory wiring system for the Legacy Wagon unless it's an Outback model. So what I'm wondering is if anyone knows of any place that makes/sells wiring harnesses that plug into the factory system for just a plain 2003 Legacy L wagon or if anyone has used an Outback wiring harness on an Legacy L wagon? Thanks, Heath
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